Army to Artery
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
Army, n. (1)
YA 1.378 9 Instead of a huge Army and Navy and
Executive Departments, [Trade] converts Government into an
Intelligence-Office...
Army of the Potomac, n. (1)
SMC 11.372 11 We [Thirty-second Regiment] have been
in the first line twenty-six days, and fighting every day but two;
whilst your newspapers talk of the inactivity of the Army of the
Potomac.
army-barracks, n. (1)
Bost 12.188 14 [Boston] is...not...an army-barracks
grown up by time and luck to a place of wealth;...
army-fever, n. (1)
MMEm 10.400 8 [Mary Moody Emerson's father] died at
Rutland, Vermont, of army-fever...
army-files, n. (1)
NR 3.240 13 A new poet has appeared; a new character
approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found
his regiment and section in our old army-files?
army-flogging, n. (1)
ET4 5.63 24 [The English] have retained impressment,
deck-flogging, army-flogging and school-flogging.
army-list, n. (1)
army-reform, n. (1)
ET18 5.305 13 There is [in England] a drag of inertia
which resists reform in every shape;--law-reform, army-reform...
Arnica mollis, n. (1)
Thor 10.464 5 At Mount Washington...Thoreau had a bad
fall, and sprained his foot. As he was in the act of getting up from
his fall, he saw for the first time the leaves of the Arnica mollis.
arnica, n. (3)
Wsp 6.232 23 A high aim is curative, as well as
arnica.
SMC 11.359 7 The older among us can well remember
[George Prescott]... tender as a woman in his care for a cough or a
chilblain in his men; had troches and arnica in his pocket for them.
CL 12.161 25 Is it not an eminent convenience to have
in your town a person who knows where arnica grows...
Arnim, Bettina von [Bettine (1)
Ctr 6.163 17 Bettine replies to Goethe's mother, who
chides her disregard of dress,--If I cannot do as I have a mind in our
poor Frankfort, I shall not carry things far.
Arnim, Elizabeth [Bettine] (1)
PC 8.218 19 Some...Erasmus, Beranger, Bettine von
Arnim...is always allowed.
Arnim, Elizabeth von [Betti (1)
Exp 3.55 21 Once I took such delight in Montaigne
that I thought I should not need any other book; before that, in
Shakspeare;...afterwards in Goethe; even in Bettine;...
Arno, River, n. (1)
MAng1 12.243 9 The city of Florence, on the river
Arno, still treasures the fame of this man [Michelangelo].
Arnold, Matthew, n. (1)
ET17 5.292 26 Every day in London gave me new
opportunities of meeting men and women who give splendor to society. I
saw...the younger poets, Clough, Arnold and Patmore;...
aroma, n. (2)
Fdsp 2.199 17 ...the very flower and aroma of the
flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach
each other.
arose, v. (13)
MN 1.208 13 Hereto was [a man] born...to do an office
which nature could not forego...and then immerge again into the holy
silence and eternity out of which as a man he arose.
Hist 2.25 7 ...Xenophon arose naked, and taking an
axe, began to split wood;...
Lov1 2.180 25 ...personal beauty is then first
charming and itself...when... [the beholder] cannot feel more right to
it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset. Hence arose the
saying, If I love you, what is that to you?
Pt1 3.9 8 ...the question arose whether [a recent
writer of lyrics] was not only a lyrist but a poet...
Chr1 3.109 5 We require that a man should be so large
and columnar in the landscape, that it should deserve to be recorded
that he arose, and girded up his loins, and departed to such a place.
ET7 5.125 14 I knew a very worthy man...who went to
the opera to see Malibran. In one scene, the heroine was to rush across
a ruined bridge. Mr. B. arose and mildly yet firmly called the
attention of the audience and the performers to the fact that, in his
judgment, the bridge was unsafe!
CbW 6.253 23 Edward I. wanted money, armies, castles,
and as much as he could get. It was necessary to call the people
together by shorter, swifter ways,--and the House of Commons arose.
Elo1 7.72 18 ...when the wise Ulysses arose and stood
and looked down... you would say it was some angry or foolish man;...
Dem1 10.18 27 ...[demonic individuals] are not to be
conquered save by the universe itself, against which they have taken up
arms. Out of such experiences doubtless arose the strange, monstrous
proverb, Nobody against God but God.
LLNE 10.329 20 The warm swart Earth-spirit which made
the strength of past ages...all gone; another hour had struck and other
forms arose.
MMEm 10.417 17 ...Malden [alluding to the sale of her
farm]. Last night I [Mary Moody Emerson] spoke two sentences about that
foolish place, which I most bitterly lament,-not because they were
improper, but they arose from anger.
MAng1 12.242 1 At the age of eighty years,
[Michelangelo] wrote to Vasari...and tells him...that...no fancy arose
in his mind but DEATH was sculptured on it.
Trag 12.413 27 ...in truth [the man not grounded in
the divine life] was already a driving wreck before the wind arose...
arouse, v. (3)
Grts 8.311 25 [The scholar's] courage is
to...criticise Kant and Swedenborg, and on all these arouse the central
courage of insight.
Edc1 10.151 14 Is it not manifest...that wise
men...heartily seeking the good of mankind...should dare to arouse the
young to a just and heroic life;...
Trag 12.414 7 If any perversity or profligacy break
out in society, [the man who is centred] will join with others to avert
the mischief, but it will not arouse resentment or fear, because he
discerns its impassable limits.
aroused, adj. (1)
Edc1 10.132 20 ...presently the aroused intellect
finds gold and gems in one of these scorned facts...
aroused, v. (5)
SR 2.56 18 ...when the ignorant and the poor are
aroused...it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it
godlike as a trifle of no concernment.
Prd1 2.230 20 There is a certain fatal dislocation in
our relation to nature... which seems at last to have aroused all the
wit and virtue in the world to ponder the question of Reform.
EWI 11.109 21 These debates [on West Indian slavery]
are instructive, as they show on what grounds the trade was assailed
and defended. Everything generous, wise and sprightly is sure to come
to the attack. On the other part are found cold prudence, bare-faced
selfishness and silent votes. But the nation was aroused to enthusiasm.
PLT 12.19 4 ...presently, antagonized by other
thoughts which [the perceptions of the soul] first aroused, or by
thoughts which are sons and daughters of these, the thought buries
itself in the new thought of larger scope...
arouses, v. (2)
Lov1 2.186 1 [The soul] arouses itself at last from
these endearments, as toys...
arousing, v. (1)
Edc1 10.127 15 [Man's] continual tendency, his great
danger, is to overlook the fact that the world is only his teacher, and
the nature of sun and moon, plant and animal only means of arousing his
interior activity.
arraign, v. (3)
Con 1.308 12 I am unworthy to arraign your manner of
living, until I too have been tried.
Gts 3.162 16 We arraign society if it do not give
us...opportunity, love, reverence and objects of veneration.
arraignment, n. (1)
CInt 12.116 22 ...the new times are the times of
arraignment, times of trial...
arrange, v. (7)
Pol1 3.199 13 Society is an illusion to the young
citizen. It lies before him in rigid repose, with certain names, men
and institutions rooted like oak-trees to the centre, round which all
arrange themselves the best they can.
SwM 4.125 1 [To Swedenborg] All things in the
universe arrange themselves to each person anew, according to his
ruling love.
PLT 12.11 26 ...he who who contents himself
with...recording only what facts he has observed, without attempting to
arrange them within one outline, follows a system also...
PLT 12.19 17 So works the poor little blockhead
manikin. He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can.
PLT 12.19 24 Whilst we consider this appetite of the
mind to arrange its phenomena, there is another fact which makes this
useful.
PLT 12.45 25 There are men...who easily entertain
ideas, but...cannot connect or arrange their thoughts so as effectively
to report them.
PLT 12.52 17 ...to arrange general reflections in
their natural order...this continuity is for the great.
arranged, v. (13)
Nat 1.73 9 Such examples [of the action of man upon
nature with his entire force] are...many obscure and yet contested
facts, now arranged under the name of Animal Magnetism;...
ShP 4.194 16 [Sculpture in Egypt and in Greece] was
the ornament of the temple wall: at first a rude relief carved on
pediments, then the relief became bolder and a head or arm was
projected from the wall; the groups being still arranged with reference
to the building...
ET1 5.6 23 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of
structure...an emphasis of features proportioned to their gradated
importance in function; color and ornament to be decided and arranged
and varied by strictly organic laws...
ET5 5.94 3 The climate and geography [of England], I
said, were factitious, as if the hands of man had arranged the
conditions.
ET15 5.265 1 The late Mr. Walter was printer of The
[London] Times, and had gradually arranged the whole materiel of it in
perfect system.
DL 7.109 4 An increased consciousness of the soul,
you say, characterizes the period. Let us see if it has not only
arranged the atoms at the circumference, but the atoms at the core.
Suc 7.284 23 There is nothing in war, said Napoleon,
which I cannot do by my own hands. ... In administration, it is I alone
who have arranged the finances, as you know
Edc1 10.150 12 Appetite and indolence [young men]
have, but no enthusiasm. These come in numbers to the college: few
geniuses: and the teaching comes to be arranged for these many, and not
for those few.
Mem 12.93 12 There is no book like the memory, none
with such a good index, and that of every kind...arranged by names of
persons...
MAng1 12.225 27 ...[Michelangelo] arranged the piazza
of the Capitol [Rome], and built its porticos.
EurB 12.371 20 Ben's [Jonson's] flowers are not in
pots at a city florist's, arranged on a flower-stand...
arrangement, n. (17)
Nat 1.36 22 Our dealing with sensible objects is a
constant exercise in the necessary lessons...of progressive
arrangement;...
AmS 1.87 21 The scholar of the first age received
into him the world around;...gave it the new arrangement of his own
mind...
LE 1.170 18 Since Carlyle wrote French History, we
see that no history that we have is safe, but a new classifier shall
give it new and more philosophical arrangement.
NMW 4.229 11 To be sure there are men enough who are
immersed in things...but these men ordinarily lack the power of
arrangement...
ET1 5.6 19 Here is my [Greenough's] theory of
structure: A scientific arrangement of spaces and forms to functions
and to site;...
Art2 7.44 13 In sculpture and in architecture the
material...and in architecture the mass, are sources of great pleasure
quite independent of the artificial arrangement.
DL 7.113 2 The difficulties to be overcome [in
housekeeping] must be freely admitted; they are many and great. Nor are
they to be disposed of by any criticism or amendment of particulars
taken one at a time, but only by the arrangement of the household to a
higher end than those to which our dwellings are usually built and
furnished.
Insp 8.286 27 If a new view of life or mind gives us
joy, so does new arrangement.
Edc1 10.152 25 Whatever becomes of our method [of
teaching], the conditions stand fast,-six hours, and thirty, fifty, or
a hundred and fifty pupils. Something must be done, and done speedily,
and in this distress the wisest are tempted...to proclaim...mechanical
arrangement...
LLNE 10.349 3 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's]
exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for
the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance.
LLNE 10.349 4 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's]
exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy; for
the system was the perfection of arrangement and contrivance. The force
of arrangement could no farther go.
CPL 11.496 3 ...we may all anticipate a sudden and
lasting prosperity to this ancient town [Concord], in the benefit of a
noble library, which adds by the beauty of the building, and its
skilful arrangement, a quite new attraction...
PLT 12.27 9 A man has been in Spain. The facts and
thoughts which the traveller has found in that country gradually settle
themselves into a determinate heap of one size and form and not
another. That is what he knows and has to say of Spain; he cannot say
it truly until a sufficient time for the arrangement of the particles
has elapsed.
PPr 12.380 7 ...he is the commander...whose eye not
only sees details, but throws crowds of details into their right
arrangement...
arrangements, n. (13)
Con 1.304 25 You who quarrel with the arrangements of
society...live, move, and have your being in this...
Fdsp 2.212 15 Late,--very late,--we perceive that no
arrangements...would be of any avail to establish us in such relations
with [the noble] as we desire...
Nat2 3.184 2 The common sense of Franklin, Dalton,
Davy and Black is the same common sense which made the arrangements
which now it discovers.
Ctr 6.156 17 ...the wise instructor will press this
point of securing to the young soul in the disposition of time and the
arrangements of living, periods and habits of solitude.
Suc 7.297 24 'T is the bane of life that natural
effects are continually crowded out, and artificial arrangements
substituted.
PerF 10.73 5 The brain of man has methods and
arrangements corresponding to these material powers...
Edc1 10.135 23 In affirming that the moral nature of
man is the predominant element and should therefore be mainly consulted
in the arrangements of a school, I am very far from wishing that it
should swallow up all the other instincts and faculties of man.
SovE 10.210 13 I know how delicate this [moral]
principle is,-how difficult of adaptation to practical and social
arrangements.
II 12.71 4 In the healthy mind, the
thought...appears...in institutions, in social arrangements...
II 12.87 24 ...the whole moral of modern science is
the transference of that trust which is felt in Nature's admired
arrangements, to the sphere of freedom and of rational life.
arranges, v. (4)
Comp 2.110 5 ...our act arranges itself by
irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world.
Chr1 3.96 16 A healthy soul stands united with the
Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole;...
NR 3.228 18 The magnetism which arranges tribes and
races in one polarity is alone to be respected;...
MLit 12.325 6 It was with [Goethe] a favorite task to
find a theory of every institution, custom, art, work of art, which he
observed. Witness his explanation...of the amphitheatre, which is the
enclosure of the natural cup of heads that arranges itself round every
spectacle in the street;...
arranging, v. (1)
Hsm1. 2.252 21 ...the little man...is born red, and
dies gray, arranging his toilet...
array, n. (3)
Grts 8.309 3 ...the rule of the orator begins, not in
the array of his facts, but when his deep conviction, and the right and
necessity he feels to convey that conviction to his audience,-when
these shine and burn in his address;...
SlHr 10.445 5 [Samuel Hoar] saw what was essential,
and refused whatever was not, so that no man embarrassed himself less
with a needless array of books and evidences of contingent value.
Trag 12.409 9 A low, haggard sprite sits by our
side...a power of the imagination to dislocate things orderly and
cheerful and show them in startling array.
arrayed, v. (2)
MR 1.253 7 ...at the polls [the rich man] finds
[laborers] arrayed in a mass in distinct opposition to him.
arrears, n. (1)
ET5 5.98 2 For the administration of justice [in
England], Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of
business in Chancery was, the Chancellor's staying away entirely from
his court.
arrest, n. (3)
MN 1.222 25 Do what you know, and perception is
converted into character...as...the gnarled oak to live a thousand
years is the arrest and fixation of the most volatile and ethereal
currents.
EWI 11.130 12 ...I see...poor black men of obscure
employment...in ships... freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the
States of South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have...shut up in
jails so long as the vessel remained in port, with the stringent
addition, that if the shipmaster fails to pay the costs of this
official arrest and the board in jail, these citizens are to be sold
for slaves, to pay that expense.
arrest, v. (1)
MMEm 10.400 20 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks,
it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff, who
might come to...to arrest the uncle for debt.
arrested, adj. (6)
PI 8.7 13 The electric word pronounced by John Hunter
a hundred years ago, arrested and progressive development...gave the
poetic key to Natural Science...
PI 8.7 27 Anatomy, osteology, exhibit arrested or
progessive ascent in each kind;...
Insp 8.270 21 The Hunterian law of arrested
development is not confined to vegetable and animal structure...
arrested, v. (9)
PI 8.39 6 [The poet's] inspiration is power to carry
out and complete the metamorphosis, which, in the imperfect kinds
arrested for ages, in the perfecter proceeds rapidly in the same
individual.
Schr 10.280 15 When a man begins to dedicate himself
to a particular function...the development of that mind is arrested.
EWI 11.130 7 ...I see...poor black men of obscure
employment...in ships, yet citizens of this our Commonwealth of
Massachusetts,-freeborn as we,-whom the slave-laws of the States of
South Carolina and Georgia and Louisiana have arrested in the vessels
in which they visited those ports...
FSLC 11.180 21 In Boston, we have said with such
lofty confidence, no fugitive slave can be arrested...
FSLC 11.180 24 ...we must transfer our vaunt to the
country, and say, with a little less confidence, no fugitive man can be
arrested here;...
PLT 12.60 1 The same course continues itself in the
mind which we have witnessed in Nature, namely the carrying-on and
completion of the metamorphosis from grub to worm, from worm to fly. In
human thought this process is often arrested for years and ages.
Bost 12.206 26 From...the Quaker women who for a
testimony walked naked into the streets, and as the record tells us
were arrested and publicly whipped,-the baggages that they were;...down
to Abner Kneeland...there never was wanting [in Boston] some thorn of
dissent and innovation and heresy to prick the sides of conservatism.
arrests, v. (1)
Arrian, n. (1)
OS 2.275 8 With each divine impulse the mind...comes
out into eternity, and inspires and expires its air. It...becomes
conscious of a closer sympathy with Zeno and Arrian than with persons
in the house.
arriva, v. (1)
MAng1 12.214 3 Non ha l' ottimo artista alcun
concetto,/ Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva/ Col suo soverchio,
e solo a quello arriva/ La man che obbedisce all' intelletto./ M.
Angelo, Sonneto primo.
arrival, n. (23)
Fdsp 2.192 10 [The stranger's] arrival almost brings
fear to the good hearts that would welcome him.
Pt1 3.11 26 Man...still watches for the arrival of a
brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his
own.
Mrs1 3.134 22 It was...a very natural point of old
feudal etiquette that a gentleman who received a visit, though it were
of his sovereign...should wait his arrival at the door of his house.
Mrs1 3.136 12 [Montaigne's] arrival in each place,
the arrival of a gentleman of France, is an event of some consequence.
ET6 5.102 5 On the day of my arrival at Liverpool, a
gentleman, in describing to me the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened
to say, Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock and will fight till he
dies;...
ET19 5.309 1 A few days after my arrival at
Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its annual
Banquet...
Pow 6.57 24 What enhancement to all the water and
land in England is the arrival of James Watt or Brunel!
DL 7.120 18 ...who can see unmoved...the cautious
comparison of the attractive advertisement of the arrival of Macready,
Booth or Kemble...with the expense of the entertainment;...
Boks 7.219 26 [The communications of the sacred
books]...are living characters translatable into every tongue and form
of life. I read them on lichens and bark;...I detect them in laughter
and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. These are Scriptures
which the missionary might well carry...to Siberia, Japan, Timbuctoo.
Yet he will find that the spirit which is in them...greets him on his
arrival...
Res 8.140 13 The marked events in history...the
arrival among an old stationary nation of a more instructed race...each
of these events electrifies the tribe to which it befalls;...
PPo 8.241 10 ...when the Queen of Sheba came to visit
Solomon, he had built, against her arrival, a palace...
Chr2 10.99 11 The aid which others give us is like
that of the mother to the child...but on [a man's] arrival at a certain
maturity, it ceases...
MMEm 10.402 10 [Mary Moody Emerson's] sympathy for
young people who pleased her...was sure to make her arrival in each
house a holiday.
MMEm 10.405 11 ...on her arrival at any new home
[Mary Moody Emerson] was likely to steer first to the minister's house
and pray his wife to take a boarder;...
EWI 11.144 8 ...now, the arrival in the world of such
men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes...outweighs in good omen all
the English and American humanity.
War 11.173 1 We are affected...by the appearance of a
few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own
keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and
virtue.
FSLN 11.238 27 Slowly, slowly the Avenger comes, but
comes surely. The proverbs of the nations affirm these delays, but
affirm the arrival.
FSLN 11.239 8 There has come, too, one to whom
lurking warfare is dear, Retribution...limping, late in her arrival.
SMC 11.352 20 This new [Concord] Monument is built to
mark the arrival of the nation at the new principle...
CL 12.151 5 The next day the Hylas were piping in
every pool, and a new activity among the hardy birds, the premature
arrival of the bluebird...
arrive, v. (54)
Nat 1.36 1 ...we arrive at once at a new fact, that
nature is a discipline.
SL 2.136 7 Our Sunday-schools and churches and
pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. ... There are natural ways of
arriving at the same ends at which these aim, but do not arrive.
Lov1 2.185 18 ...the lot of humanity is on these
children [young lovers]. Danger, sorrow and pain arrive to them as to
all.
OS 2.283 13 Do not require a description of the
countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe
them to you, and to-morrow you arrive there and know them by inhabiting
them.
Pt1 3.6 10 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses
have sufficient force to arrive at the senses...
Pt1 3.32 7 An imaginative book renders us much more
service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterwards
when we arrive at the precise sense of the author.
Exp 3.71 9 ...if at any time being alone I have good
thoughts, I do not at once arrive at satisfactions...
Exp 3.71 23 ...every insight from this realm of
thought...promises a sequel. I do not make it; I arrive there, and
behold what was there already.
Chr1 3.95 2 Suppose a slaver on the coast of Guinea
should take on board a gang of negroes which should contain persons of
the stamp of Toussaint L' Ouverture: let us fancy, under these swarthy
masks he has a gang of Washingtons in chains. When they arrive at Cuba,
will the relative order of the ship's company be the same?
Nat2 3.180 11 Now we learn what patient periods must
round themselves before the rock is formed;... How far off yet is the
trilobite! how far the quadruped! how inconceivably remote is man! All
duly arrive...
Nat2 3.188 12 Each young and ardent person writes a
diary, in which, when the hours of prayer and penitence arrive, he
inscribes his soul.
Nat2 3.191 23 ...this is the ridicule of the
[wealthy] class, that they arrive with pains and sweat and fury
nowhere;...
NR 3.241 6 To embroil the confusion and make it
impossible to arrive at any general statement,--when we have insisted
on the imperfection of individuals, our affections and our experience
urge that every individual is entitled to honor...
NER 3.260 11 One tendency appears alike in the
philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical
movements...the wish, namely, to...arrive at short methods;...
PPh 4.48 12 The mind is urged to ask for one cause of
many effects; then for the cause of that; and again the
cause...self-assured that it shall arrive at an absolute and sufficient
one...
NMW 4.238 8 This [Austrian] cavalry...required a
quarter of an hour to arrive on the field of action...
ET5 5.89 12 When Thor and his companions arrive at
Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he
understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
ET6 5.106 21 [The English] will not break up, or
arrive at any desperate revolution...
ET6 5.113 24 The guests [at dinner in London] are
expected to arrive within half an hour of the time fixed by card of
invitation...
ET11 5.178 16 Wraxall says that in 1781, Lord Surrey,
afterwards Duke of Norfolk, told him that when the year 1783 should
arrive, he meant to give a grand festival to all the descendants of the
body of Jockey of Norfolk...
ET11 5.188 23 In these [English] manors...the
antiquary finds the frailest Roman jar...keeping the series of history
unbroken and waiting for its interpreter, who is sure to arrive.
ET12 5.211 11 No doubt much of the power and
brilliancy of the reading-men [at Oxford] is merely constitutional or
hygienic. With a hardier habit and resolute gymnastics...the American
would arrives at as robust exegesis...
ET16 5.278 27 Some diligent Fellowes or Layard will
arrive, stone by stone, at the whole history [of Stonehenge]...
Wth 6.100 22 The problem [in commerce] is to combine
many and remote operations with the accuracy and adherence to the
facts...so as to arrive at gigantic results, without any compromise of
safety.
Wsp 6.202 10 If the Divine Providence...has stated
itself out in passions, in war...let us not be so nice that we
cannot...doubt but there is a counter-statement as ponderous, which we
can arrive at...
CbW 6.243 3 Say not, the chiefs who first arrive/
Usurp the seats for which all strive;/...
Art2 7.51 2 ...we arrive at this conclusion...that
the delight which a work of art affords, seems to arise from our
recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature...
Elo1 7.86 4 ...the court and the county have really
come together to arrive at these three or four memorable expressions
which betrayed the mind and meaning of somebody.
Suc 7.294 20 I pronounce that young man happy who is
content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at, and waits
willingly when the occasion of making it appreciated shall arrive...
OA 7.335 14 [John Adams] received a premature report
of his son's election...and told the reporter he had been hoaxed, for
it was not yet time for any news to arrive.
PI 8.4 19 Faraday...taught that when we should arrive
at the...primordial elements...we should...find...spherules of force.
PI 8.62 23 You will find the king at Carduel in Wales
[said Merlin]; and when you arrive there you will find there all the
companions who departed with you...
SA 8.82 17 ...we are awkward for want of thought. The
inspiration is scanty, and does not arrive at the extremities.
QO 8.203 19 ...no man suspects the superior merit of
[Cook's or Henry's] description, until Chateaubriand, or Moore, or
Campbell, or Byron, or the artists, arrive...
PC 8.215 23 If [your public] are satisfied with cheap
performance, you will not easily arrive at better.
Schr 10.265 23 Like [the pearl-diver and the
diamond-merchant] [the poet] will joyfully lose days and months...in
the profound hope that one restoring, all rewarding, immense success
will arrive at last...
Schr 10.270 14 For [the poet] arms, art, politics,
trade, waited like menials, until the lord of the manor should arrive.
CSC 10.373 20 This [Chardon Street] Convention
never...pretended to arrive at any result by the expression of its
sense in formal resolutions;...
LS 11.15 20 We arrive, then, at this conclusion:
first, that it does not appear from a careful examination of the
account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that it was designed by
Jesus to be perpetual;...
PLT 12.10 6 ...there is a certain beatitude...to
which all men are entitled... and to which their entrance must be in
every way forwarded. Practical men, though they could lift the globe,
cannot arrive at this.
PLT 12.26 6 ...the dull, melancholy Pelasgi arrive at
no civility until the Phoenicians and Ionians come in.
II 12.71 11 Novelty in the means by which we arrive
at the old universal ends is the test of the presence of the highest
power...
Mem 12.92 8 The old whim or perception was an augury
of a broader insight, at which we arrive later with securer conviction.
Trag 12.406 4 The riches of body or of mind which we
do not need to-day are the reserved fund against the calamity that may
arrive to-morrow.
arrived, v. (55)
Nat 1.66 16 ...the best read naturalist who lends an
entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much
to learn of his relation to the world, and that it...is arrived at by
untaught sallies of the spirit...
MN 1.203 20 ...Nature seems further to reply, I have
ventured so great a stake as my success, in no single creature. I have
not yet arrived at any end.
Fdsp 2.202 16 [Before a friend] I am arrived at last
in the presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those
undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought...
Cir 2.317 20 ...O circular philosopher, I hear some
reader exclaim, you have arrived at a fine Pyrrhonism...
Int 2.340 5 When we are young we spend much time and
pains in filling our note-books...in the hope that in the course of a
few years we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value
of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived.
Exp 3.73 18 In our more correct writing we give to
this generalization the name of Being, and thereby confess that we have
arrived as far as we can go.
Chr1 3.109 11 When the Yunani sage arrived at
Balkh...Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country
should assemble...
Chr1 3.115 1 When at last that which we have always
longed for [a fine character] is arrived...then to be coarse...argues a
vulgarity that seems to shut the doors of heaven.
PPh 4.64 5 ...the notion of virtue is not to be
arrived at except through direct contemplation of the divine essence.
SwM 4.135 7 The genius of Swedenborg...wasted itself
in the endeavor to reanimate and conserve what had already arrived at
its natural term...
SwM 4.138 19 To what a painful perversion had Gothic
theology arrived, that Swedenborg admitted no conversion for evil
spirits!
SwM 4.141 15 ...it is certain that [the scenery and
circumstance of the newly parted soul] must tally with what is best in
nature. ... In this mood we hear the rumor that the seer has arrived...
NMW 4.225 18 [The man in the street] finds
[Napoleon], like himself, by birth a citizen, who, by very intelligible
merits, arrived as such a commanding position that he could indulge all
those tastes which the common man possesses but is obliged to conceal
and deny...
ET7 5.121 12 Whilst I was in London, M. Guizot
arrived there on his escape from Paris...
ET10 5.170 20 [England's] success strengthens the
hands of base wealth. Who can propose to youth poverty and wisdom, when
mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts;...
ET12 5.210 9 ...education, according to the English
notion of it, is arrived at [at Oxford].
ET15 5.269 16 On the days when I arrived in London in
1847, I read, among the daily announcements [in the London Times], one
offering a reward of fifty pounds to any person who would put a
nobleman, described by name and title, late a member of Parliament,
into any county jail in England...
Wth 6.99 23 An infinite number of shrewd men, in
infinite years, have arrived at certain best and shortest ways of
doing...
Ctr 6.159 14 A man is a beggar who only lives to the
useful, and however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social
machine, cannot be said to have arrived at self-possession.
CbW 6.266 6 An old French verse runs, in my
translation:--Some of your griefs you have cured,/ And the sharpest you
still have survived;/ But what torments of pain you endured/ From evils
that never arrived!/
WD 7.184 15 There are people...who have no talents,
or care not to have them,--being that which was before talent, and
shall be after it, and of which talent seems only a tool: this is
character, the highest name at which philosophy has arrived.
Boks 7.206 18 If now the relations of England to
European affairs bring [the scholar] to British ground, he is arrived
at the very moment when modern history takes new proportions.
PPo 8.263 25 In the fable [Ferideddin Attar's Bird
Conversations], the birds were soon weary of the length and
difficulties of the way, and at last almost all gave out. Three only
persevered, and arrived before the throne of the Simorg.
Aris 10.45 11 ...the man's associations, fortunes,
love, hatred, residence, rank, the books he will buy, the roads he will
traverse are predetermined in his organism. Men will need him, and he
is rich and eminent by nature. That man cannot be too late or too
early. Let him not hurry or hesitate. Though millions are already
arrived, his seat is reserved.
Aris 10.56 1 I am acquainted with persons who go
attended with this ambient cloud. ... They seem to have arrived at the
fact, to have got rid of the show, and to be serene.
MoL 10.246 7 Dickens complained that in America, as
soon as he arrived in any of the Western towns, a committee waited on
him and invited him to deliver a temperance lecture.
EzRy 10.387 21 We presently arrived [at the funeral],
and the Doctor [Ezra Ripley] addressed each of the mourners
separately...
MMEm 10.432 12 ...when at last her release arrived,
the event of [Mary Moody Emerson's] death had really such a comic tinge
in the eyes of every one who knew her, that her friends feared they
might, at her funeral, not dare to look at each other, lest they should
forget the serious proprieties of the hour.
HDC 11.29 6 ...the people of New England...as the
second centennial anniversary of each of its early settlements arrived,
have seen fit to observe the day.
HDC 11.31 26 Mr. Bulkeley, having turned his estate
into money and set his face towards New England, was easily able to
persuade a good number of planters to join him. They arrived in Boston
in 1634.
HDC 11.32 13 ...on the 2d of September, 1635...leave
to begin a plantation at Musketaquid was given to Peter Bulkeley, Simon
Willard, and about twelve families more. A month later, Rev. John Jones
and a large number of settlers destined for the new town arrived in
Boston.
HDC 11.37 18 ...the peace was made, and the ear of
the savage already secured, before the pilgrims arrived at his seat of
Musketaquid...
HDC 11.74 4 ...the men of Acton, Bedford, Lincoln and
Carlisle...arrived [at Concord] and fell into the ranks so fast, that
Major Buttrick found himself superior in number to the enemy's party at
the bridge.
LVB 11.90 5 Even in our distant State some good rumor
of [the Cherokees'] worth and civility has arrived.
EWI 11.136 2 The lives of the advocates [of
emancipation in the West Indies] are pages of greatness, and the
connection of the eminent senators with this question constitutes the
immortalizing moments of those men's lives. The bare enunciation of the
theses at which the lawyers and legislators arrived, gives a glow to
the heart of the reader.
EWI 11.145 8 ...in the great anthem which we call
history...[the black race] perceive the time arrived when they can
strike in with effect...
SMC 11.374 20 ...the [Thirty-second] regiment was
mustered out in the field, at Washington, on the twenty-eighth of June,
and arrived in Boston on the first of July.
CPL 11.499 11 ...whenever [Mary Moody Emerson]
arrived in a town where was a good minister who had a library, she
would persuade him to receive her as a boarder...
FRep 11.526 24 ...instead of the doleful experience
of the European economist, who tells us, In almost all countries the
condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable, here
that same great body has arrived at a sloven plenty...
PLT 12.6 3 [When I look at the tree or the river] I
feel as if I stood by an ambassador charged with the message of his
king which he does not deliver because the hour when he should say it
is not yet arrived.
II 12.76 7 ...Van Mons of Belgium, after all his
experiments at crossing and refining his fruit, arrived at last at the
most complete trust in the native power.
PPr 12.386 12 Every object [in Carlyle]
attitudinizes...and instead of the common earth and sky, we have a
Martin's Creation or Judgment Day. A crisis has always arrived which
requires a deus ex machina.
Let 12.398 13 As soon as [American youths] have
arrived at this term, there are no employments to satisfy them...
arrives, v. (22)
MN 1.218 23 ...when Genius arrives, its speech is
like a river;...
SR 2.46 12 There is a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;...
SL 2.147 8 Our eyes are holden that we cannot see
things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind
is ripened;...
Nat2 3.180 25 ...the addition of matter from year to
year arrives at last at the most complex forms;...
Nat2 3.190 2 ...there is throughout
nature...something that leads us on and on, but arrives nowhere;...
Nat2 3.194 1 [Nature's] secret is untold. Many and
many an Oedipus arrives; he has the whole mystery teeming in his brain.
UGM 4.11 13 ...the chemic lump arrives at the plant,
and grows;...
UGM 4.11 14 ...the chemic lump...arrives at the
quadruped, and walks;...
UGM 4.11 15 ...the chemic lump...arrives at the man,
and thinks.
UGM 4.26 13 We learn of our contemporaries what they
know...almost through the pores of the skin. We catch it by sympathy,
or as a wife arrives at the intellectual and moral elevations of her
husband.
Wth 6.84 5 ...when the quarried means were piled,/
All is waste and worthless, till/ Arrives the wise selecting will/...
Wth 6.95 13 The world is his who has money to go over
it. He arrives at the seashore and a sumptuous ship has floored and
carpeted for him the stormy Atlantic...
Elo1 7.77 11 Face to face with a highwayman...can you
bring yourself off safe by your wit exercised through speech?--a
problem easy enough to Caesar or Napoleon. Whenever a man of that stamp
arrives, the highwayman has found a master.
WD 7.170 1 The scholar must look long for the right
hour for Plato's Timaeus. At last the elect morning arrives...
Aris 10.58 25 ...I know no such unquestionable badge
and ensign of a sovereign mind, as that tenacity of purpose
which...wearies out opposition, and arrives at its port.
Schr 10.270 16 Even the demonstrations of Nature for
millenniums seem not to have attained their end, until this interpreter
[the poet] arrives.
Koss 11.401 7 ...when the crisis arrives it will find
us all instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
PLT 12.26 9 The Briton, the Pict, is nothing until
the Roman, the Saxon, the Norman, arrives.
Mem 12.104 13 The spring days when the bluebird
arrives have usually only few hours of fine temperature...
arriving, adj. (1)
CPL 11.497 8 Robinson Crusoe, could he have had a
shelf of our books, could almost have done without his man Friday, or
even the arriving ship.
arriving, v. (14)
SL 2.136 6 Our Sunday-schools and churches and
pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. ... There are natural ways of
arriving at the same ends at which these aim, but do not arrive.
Art1 2.368 26 When its errands are noble and
adequate, a steamboat... arriving at its ports with the punctuality of
a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.
Nat2 3.179 18 [Efficient Nature] publishes itself in
creatures...arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.
ET4 5.51 17 In the impossibility of arriving at
satisfaction on the historical question of race, and...the indisputable
Englishman before me...I fancied I could leave quite aside the choice
of a tribe as his lineal progenitors...
ET16 5.276 8 We [Emerson and Carlyle]...took a
carriage to Amesbury... and, arriving at Amesbury, stopped at the
George Inn.
Wth 6.121 27 Of the two eminent engineers in the
recent construction of railways in England, Mr. Brunel went
straight...and so arriving at his end, at great pleasure to geometers,
but with cost to his company.
Wsp 6.199 12 This is he men miscall Fate,/ Threading
dark ways, arriving late/...
CbW 6.266 25 ...who provoke pity like that excellent
family party just arriving in their well-appointed carriage, as far
from home and any honest end as ever?
Ill 6.310 10 On arriving at what is called the
Star-Chamber [in the Mammoth Cave], our lamps were taken from us by the
guide...
Ill 6.318 8 ...[Columbus] found the illusion of
arriving from the east at the Indies more composing to his lofty spirit
than any tobacco.
SA 8.94 23 The party in the second coach, on
arriving, heard this story with surprise;...
Aris 10.61 17 The generous soul, on arriving in a new
port, makes instant preparation for a new voyage.
FSLC 11.185 14 Because of this preoccupied mind, the
whole wealth and power of Boston...are thrown into the scale of crime:
and the poor black boy...on arriving here finds all this force employed
to catch him.
arrogance, n. (8)
MN 1.199 1 Empedocles undoubtedly spoke a truth of
thought, when he said, I am God; but the moment it was out of his mouth
it became a lie to the ear; and the world revenged itself for the
seeming arrogance by the good story about his shoe.
ET15 5.270 2 One would think the world was on its
knees to The [London] Times office for its daily breakfast. But this
arrogance is calculated.
Farm 7.153 9 Put [the farmer] on a new planet and he
would know where to begin; yet there is no arrogance in his bearing...
PPo 8.242 17 Rustem felt such anger at the arrogance
of the King of Mazinderan that every hair on his body started up like a
spear.
Aris 10.29 4 But for ye speken of such gentillesse/
As is descended out of old richesse,/ That therfore shullen ye be
gentilmen,-/ Such arrogance n' is not worth a hen./
PLT 12.11 23 ...if one can say so without arrogance,
I might suggest that he who who contents himself with dotting a
fragmentary curve...follows a system also...
arrogancy, n. (1)
arrogant, adj. (2)
ET8 5.137 24 ...the English press [is] never timorous
about French opinion, but arrogant and contemptuous.
SMC 11.355 20 ...the common people [in the South],
rich or poor, were...as arrogant as the negroes on the Gambia River;...
arrow, n. (5)
Dem1 10.15 7 ...[Masollam] replied...Why are you so
foolish as to take care of this unfortunate bird? How could this fowl
give us any wise directions respecting our journey, when he could not
save his own life? Had he known anything of futurity, he would not have
come here to be killed by the arrow of Masollam the Jew.
arrow-head, adj. (1)
PI 8.22 22 In the ocean, in fire, in the sky, in the
forest, [man] finds facts adequate and as large as he. ... It is
easier...to decipher the arrow-head character, than to interpret these
familiar sights.
arrow-head, n. (1)
arrow-heads, n. (2)
Thor 10.463 25 One day, walking with a stranger, who
inquired where Indian arrow-heads could be found, [Thoreau] replied,
Everywhere...
Thor 10.473 12 Indian relics abound in
Concord,-arrow-heads, stone chisels, pestles and fragments of
pottery;...
arrows, n. (4)
Pow 6.59 19 Nothing that [the weaker party] knows
will quite hit the mark, whilst all the rival's arrows are good, and
well thrown.
FRep 11.513 17 Our sleepy civilization, ever since
Roger Bacon and Monk Schwartz invented gunpowder, has built its whole
art of war...on that one compound...and is very scornful about bows and
arrows...
arsenal, n. (4)
PerF 10.69 18 Art is long, and life short, and [a
man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his
task the energies of Nature. Reinforce his self-respect, show him...his
arsenal of forces...
PerF 10.70 1 ...I find it wholesome and invigorating
to enumerate the resources we can command, to look a little into this
arsenal...
War 11.165 17 The standing army, the arsenal, the
camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man.
PLT 12.31 21 There is no property or relation in that
immense arsenal of forces which the earth is, but some man is at last
found who affects this...
Arsenal, n. (1)
ET4 5.62 5 It was a tardy recoil of these invasions
[of Northmen], when...in 1807, Lord Cathcart, at Copenhagen, took the
entire Danish fleet...and all the equipments from the Arsenal...
arsenals, n. (3)
Wth 6.94 25 To be rich is...to see galleries,
libraries, arsenals, manufactories.
arsenic, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.138 2 I pray my companion...if he wishes for
sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them...
Wth 6.103 17 A dollar...is worth more...in a
temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime,
where dice, knives and arsenic are in constant play.
arson, n. (2)
FSLC 11.187 14 Here is a statute [the Fugitive Slave
Law] which enacts the crime of kidnapping,-a crime on one footing with
arson and murder.
FSLN 11.234 13 If slavery is good, then is lying,
theft, arson, homicide, each and all good...
Art, Divine, n. (1)
Art2 7.39 15 ...Plato rightly said, Those things
which are said to be done by Nature are indeed done by Divine Art.
Art, Fine, n. (1)
PerF 10.81 8 One day I found [the stupid farmer's]
little boy of four years dragging about after him the prettiest little
wooden cart...and learned that Papa had made it; that hidden deep in
that thick skull was this gentle art and taste which the little fingers
and caresses of his son had the power to draw out into day; he was no
peasant after all. So near to us is the flowering of Fine Art in the
rudest population.
art, n. (417)
Nat 1.4 27 ...all which Philosophy distinguishes as
the NOT ME, that is, both nature and art...must be ranked under this
name, NATURE.
Nat 1.19 5 In July, the blue pontederia...swarms with
yellow butterflies in continual motion. Art cannot rival this pomp of
purple and gold.
AmS 1.87 13 The next great influence into the spirit
of the scholar is the mind of the Past, - in whatever form, whether of
literature, of art, of institutions, that mind is inscribed.
AmS 1.98 5 Years are well spent...in art; to the one
end of mastering...a language by which to illustrate and embody our
perceptions.
AmS 1.105 16 They are the kings of the world who give
the color of their present thought to all nature and all art...
AmS 1.110 16 I read with some joy of the auspicious
signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and
art...
DSA 1.127 12 Let this faith depart, and...the things
it made become... hurtful. Then falls...art, letters, life.
DSA 1.147 21 There are...persons...to whom all we
call art and artist, seems too nearly allied to show and by-ends...
LE 1.169 18 ...this beauty...which the sun and the
moon, the snow and the rain, repaint and vary, has never been recorded
by art...
LE 1.176 5 We...talk of muse and prophet, of art and
creation.
LE 1.185 26 When you shall say...I must eat the good
of the land and let learning and romantic expectations go...then once
more perish the buds of art...
LE 1.186 26 Make yourself necessary to the world, and
mankind will give you bread...such as shall not take away your
property...in art, in nature, and in hope.
MN 1.194 23 ...the wit of man...his art, is the grace
and presence of God.
MN 1.206 11 Each individual soul is such in virtue of
its being a power to translate the world into some particular language
of its own;...into...an art...
MN 1.210 27 What is best in any work of art but that
part which the work itself seems to require and do;...
MN 1.211 22 [This ecstatic state] respects...art, and
not works of art;...
MR 1.242 20 ...if a man find in himself any strong
bias...to art...that man... ought to ransom himself from the duties of
economy by a certain rigor and privation in his habits.
MR 1.243 6 [The man with a strong bias to the
contemplative life] may leave to others...the possession of works of
art.
MR 1.245 7 ...we shall dwell like the ancient Romans
in narrow tenements, whilst our public edifices, like theirs, will be
worthy...for art...
MR 1.245 11 How can the man who has learned but one
art, procure all the conveniences of life honestly?
LT 1.283 20 Thinking, which was a rage, is become an
art.
LT 1.283 26 ...we begin to doubt if that great
revolution in the art of war, which has made it a game of posts instead
of a game of battles, has not operated on Reform;...
YA 1.369 13 Whatever events in progress shall go to
disgust men with cities...will further the most poetic of all the
occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden
graces of the landscape.
YA 1.378 14 ...[Trade] converts Government into an
Intelligence-Office, where every man may find what he wishes to buy,
and expose what he has to sell; not only produce and manufactures, but
art, skill, and intellectual and moral values.
Hist 2.16 9 There are men whose manners have the same
essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of
the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art.
Hist 2.17 15 ...the history of art and of literature,
must be explained from individual history, or must remain words.
Hist 2.20 2 In these [Nubian Egypian] caverns,
already prepared by nature, the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge
shapes and masses, so that when art came to the assistance of nature it
could not move on a small scale without degrading itself.
SR 2.81 12 I have no churlish objection to the
circumnavigation of the globe for the purposes of art...
SR 2.86 3 ...nor can all the science, art, religion,
and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men
than Plutarch's heroes...
SR 2.86 18 Hudson and Behring accomplished so much in
their fishing-boats as to astonish Parry and Franklin, whose equipment
exhausted the resources of science and art.
Comp 2.101 13 Every occupation, trade, art,
transaction, is a compend of the world...
SL 2.157 7 This is that law whereby a work of
art...sets us in the same state of mind wherein the artist was when he
made it.
Lov1 2.175 5 ...no man ever forgot the visitations of
that power to his heart and brain...which was the dawn in him of music,
poetry, and art;...
Lov1 2.188 3 ...nature and intellect and art emulate
each other in the gifts and the melody they bring to the epithalamium.
Prd1 2.229 11 The last Grand Duke of
Weimar...said,--I have sometimes remarked in the presence of great
works of art...how much a certain property contributes to the effect
which gives life to the figures, and to the life an irresistible truth.
Prd1 2.232 5 The man of talent affects to call his
transgressions of the laws of the senses trivial and to count them
nothing considered with his devotion to his art.
Prd1 2.240 26 ...truth, frankness, courage, love,
humility and all the virtues range themselves on the side of prudence,
or the art of securing a present well-being.
Cir 2.304 10 ...it is the inert effort of each
thought, having formed itself into a circular wave of circumstance,--as
for instance...rules of an art...to heap itself on that ridge...
Int 2.327 12 ...any record of our fancies or
reflections, disentangled from the web of our unconsciousness, becomes
an object impersonal and immortal. ... A better art than that of Egypt
has taken fear and corruption out of it.
Int 2.337 25 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw
[in unconscious states]...can design well and group well; its
composition is full of art...
Art1 2.354 4 ...historically viewed, it has been the
office of art to educate the perception of beauty.
Art1 2.357 1 ...as I see many pictures and higher
genius in the art [of painting], I see the boundless opulence of the
pencil...
Art1 2.357 24 There is no statue like this living
man, with his infinite advantage over all ideal sculpture, of perpetual
variety. What a gallery of art have I here!
Art1 2.358 6 ...except to open your eyes to the
masteries of eternal art, [oil and easels, marble and chisels] are
hypocritical rubbish.
Art1 2.358 9 The reference of all production at last
to an aboriginal Power explains the traits common to all works of the
highest art...
Art1 2.358 16 In happy hours, nature appears to us
one with art; art perfected...
Art1 2.358 20 ...the individual in whom simple tastes
and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the
accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art.
Art1 2.358 26 The best of beauty is...a radiation
from the work of art, of human character...
Art1 2.363 6 Art has not yet come to its maturity if
it do not put itself abreast with the most potent influences of the
world...
Art1 2.365 13 All works of art should not be
detached, but extempore performances.
Art1 2.365 22 A true announcement of the law of
creation...would carry art up into the kingdom of nature...
Art1 2.366 1 ...a ball-room makes us feel that we are
all paupers in the almshouse of this world...without skill or industry.
Art is as poor and low.
Art1 2.366 15 Men are not well pleased with the
figure they make in their own imaginations, and they flee to art...
Art1 2.367 15 [Men] eat and drink, that they may
afterwards execute the ideal. Thus is art vilified;...
Pt1 3.4 27 ...this hidden truth, that the fountains
whence all this river of Time and its creatures floweth are
intrinsically ideal and beautiful, draws us to the consideration of the
nature and functions of the Poet, or the man of Beauty;...and to the
general aspect of the art in the present time.
Pt1 3.5 15 In love, in art...we study to utter our
painful secret.
Pt1 3.19 4 Readers of poetry see the factory-village
and the railway, and fancy that the poetry of the landscape is broken
up by these; for these works of art are not yet consecrated in their
reading;...
Pt1 3.22 13 This expression or naming is not art, but
a second nature...
Pt1 3.38 20 ...I am not wise enough for a national
criticism, and must use the old largeness a little longer, to discharge
my errand from the muse to the poet concerning his art.
Exp 3.56 19 ...thou wert born to a whole and this
story is a particular? The reason of the pain this discovery causes us
(and we make it late in respect to works of art and intellect) is the
plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to persons, to
friendship and love.
Exp 3.59 25 We live amid surfaces, and the true art
of life is to skate well on them.
Exp 3.68 19 The most attractive class of people are
those who are powerful obliquely...one gets the cheer of their light
without paying too great a tax. Theirs is the beauty of...the morning
light, and not of art.
Exp 3.76 5 ...now, the rapaciousness of this new
power, which threatens to absorb all things, engages us. Nature, art,
persons, letters, religions, objects, successively tumble in...
Chr1 3.93 16 I see [in the natural merchant], with
the pride of art and skill of masterly arithmetic and power of remote
combination, the consciousness of being an agent and playfellow of the
original laws of the world.
Nat2 3.173 16 Art and luxury have early learned that
they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty [of
nature].
Nat2 3.174 19 ...it is the magical lights of the
horizon and the blue sky for the background which save all our works of
art...
Pol1 3.210 26 From neither party, when in power, has
the world any benefit to expect in science, art, or humanity, at all
commensurate with the resources of the nation.
Pol1 3.220 16 ...when [men] are pure enough to abjure
the code of force they will be wise enough to see how these public
ends...of institutions of art and science can be answered.
NR 3.234 1 This preference of the genius to the parts
is the secret of that deification of art, which is found in all
superior minds.
NR 3.234 2 Art, in the artist, is proportion...
UGM 4.13 15 Napoleon said, You must not fight too
often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
UGM 4.31 24 ...true art is only possible on the
conviction that every talent has its apotheosis somewhere.
PPh 4.59 27 ...[Plato's] finding that word cookery,
and adulatory art, for rhetoric, in the Gorgias, does us a substantial
service still.
PPh 4.69 1 You will have, for one of the sections of
the visible world, images, that is, both shadows and reflections;--for
the other section, the objects of these images, that is, plants,
animals, and the works of art and nature.
PPh 4.75 23 ...[Plato] was able...to avail himself of
the wit and weight of Socrates, to which unquestionably his own debt
was great; and these derived again their principal advantage from the
perfect art of Plato.
PPh 4.77 11 [Plato's Platonism] shall be the world
passed through the mind of Plato,--nothing less. Every atom shall have
the Platonic tinge; every atom, every relation or quality you knew
before, you shall know again and find here, but now ordered; not
nature, but art.
MoS 4.151 1 In powerful moments, [the genius's]
thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes...
MoS 4.161 7 The wise skeptic wishes to have a near
view of...what is best in the planet; art and nature, places and
events;...
ShP 4.194 4 The poet needs a ground in popular
tradition...which...may restrain his art within the due temperance.
ShP 4.194 24 As soon as the statue was begun for
itself, and with no reference to the temple or palace, the art began to
decline...
ShP 4.207 24 ...in [Shakespeare's] drama, as in all
great works of art...the Genius draws up the ladder after him...
NMW 4.249 6 Read [Napoleon's] account, too, of the
way in which battles are gained. In all battles a moment occurs when
the bravest troops...feel inclined to run. That terror proceeds from a
want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight
opportunity, a pretence, to restore confidence to them. The art is, to
give rise to the opportunity and to invent the pretence.
NMW 4.250 1 On the voyage to Egypt [Napoleon] liked,
after dinner, to fix on three or four persons to support a proposition,
and as many to oppose it. He gave a subject, and the discussions turned
on questions of religion, the different kinds of government, and the
art of war.
GoW 4.274 19 [Goethe] has explained the distinction
between the antique and the modern spirit and art.
GoW 4.274 20 [Goethe] has defined art, its scope and
laws.
ET1 5.6 5 ...[Greenough] thought art would never
prosper until we left our shy jealous ways and worked in society as
[the Greeks].
ET1 5.6 15 [Greenough's] paper on Architecture,
published in 1843, announced in advance the leading thoughts of Mr.
Ruskin on the morality in architecture, notwithstanding the antagonism
in their views of the history of art.
ET1 5.7 22 In art, [Landor] loves the Greeks...
ET3 5.34 5 Alfieri thought Italy and England the only
countries worth living in;...the latter because art conquers nature...
ET4 5.56 18 Bonaparte's art of war, namely of
concentrating force on the point of attack, must always be theirs who
have the choice of the battle-ground.
ET5 5.79 22 ...[Kenelm Digby] propounds, that
syllogisms do breed, or rather are all the variety of man's life. ...
Man, as he is man, doth nothing else but weave such chains. ...if he do
aught beyond this...he findeth, nevertheless, in this linked sequel of
simple discourses, the art, the cause, the rule, the bounds and the
model of it.
ET5 5.89 14 When Thor and his companions arrive at
Utgard, he is told that nobody is permitted to remain here, unless he
understand some art, and excel in it all other men.
ET5 5.89 18 A nation of laborers, every [English] man
is trained to some one art or detail...
ET5 5.89 24 [The Englishman] would rather not do
anything at all than not do it well. I suppose no people have such
thoroughness;--from the highest to the lowest, every man meaning to be
master of his art.
ET5 5.93 10 There is no department of literature, of
science, or of useful art, in which [the English] have not produced a
first-rate book.
ET5 5.98 11 The manners and customs of [English]
society are artificial;... and we have a nation whose existence is a
work of art;...
ET5 5.100 26 The boys [in England] know all that
Hutton knew of strata... or Harvey of blood-vessels; and these studies,
once dangerous, are in fashion. So what is invented or known in
agriculture...or in art...
ET5 5.101 21 Whilst [the English] are some ages ahead
of the rest of the world in the art of living;...this vanguard of
civility and power they coldly hold...
ET8 5.127 8 [The English], too, believe that where
there is no enjoyment of life there can be no vigor and art in speech
or thought;...
ET8 5.130 7 ...these [lower] classes are the right
English stock, and may fairly show the national qualities, before yet
art and education have dealt with them.
ET8 5.135 19 Here [in England] was lately a
cross-grained miser [Joseph Turner]...yet as true a worshipper of
beauty in form and color as ever existed...removing the reproach of
sterility from English art...
ET8 5.142 20 ...not creators in art, [the English]
value its refinement.
ET10 5.155 10 The respect for truth of facts in
England is equalled only by the respect for wealth. It is at once the
pride of art of the Saxon...and his passion for independence.
ET11 5.185 22 The English nobles are high-spirited,
active, educated men... who...have seen every secret of art and
nature...
ET12 5.212 11 The habit of meeting well-read and
knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.
ET12 5.213 13 ...when you have settled it that the
universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart
of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind...
ET14 5.235 19 To the images from this twin source (of
Christianity and art), the mind became fruitful as by the incubation of
the Holy Ghost.
ET14 5.237 7 ...the Greek art wrought many a vase or
column, in which too long or too lithe, or nodes, or pits and flaws are
made a beauty of;...
ET14 5.241 12 ...[Pericles] meeting with
Anaxagoras...he attached himself to him, and nourished himself with
sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence; and imported thence
into the oratorical art whatever could be useful to it.
ET16 5.274 3 I thought it natural that [travelling
Americans] should give some time to works of art collected here [in
London] which they cannot find at home...
ET16 5.274 13 As soon as men begin to talk of art,
architecture and antiquities, nothing good comes of it [according to
Carlyle].
F 6.33 4 ...whilst art draws out the venom, it
commonly extorts some benefit from the vanquished enemy.
Pow 6.54 18 All the great captains, said Bonaparte,
have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of the
art...
Pow 6.56 22 The advantage of a strong pulse is not to
be supplied by any labor, art or concert.
Pow 6.72 16 This aboriginal might gives a surprising
pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement, as in
the proficients in high art.
Pow 6.72 18 When Michel Angelo was forced to paint
the Sistine Chapel in fresco, of which art he knew nothing, he went
down into the Pope's gardens behind the Vatican, and with a shovel dug
out ochres, red and yellow...
Pow 6.73 8 There is no way to success in our art but
to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the
railroad, all day and every day.
Pow 6.78 22 A humorous friend of mine thinks that the
reason why Nature is so perfect in her art, and gets up such
inconceivably fine sunsets, is that she has learned how, at last, by
dint of doing the same thing so very often.
Wth 6.85 19 Wealth has its source in applications of
the mind to nature, from the rudest strokes of spade and axe up to the
last secrets of art.
Wth 6.96 13 It is the interest of all men that there
should be Vaticans and Louvres full of noble works of art;...
Wth 6.97 19 ...how to give all access to the
masterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.
Wth 6.98 24 In the Greek cities it was reckoned
profane that any person should pretend a property in a work of art...
Wth 6.100 18 Probity and closeness to the facts are
the basis, but the masters of the art [of commerce] add a certain long
arithmetic.
Wth 6.121 16 How often we must remember the art of
the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with
releasing the parts from false position;...
Ctr 6.139 8 The antidotes against this organic
egotism are the range and variety of attractions, as gained by
acquaintance with the world...with the high resources of philosophy,
art and religion;...
Ctr 6.143 25 ...fencing, riding, are lessons in the
art of power...
Bhr 6.178 24 ...there is no end to the catalogue of
[the eye's] performances, whether in indolent vision (that of health
and beauty), or in strained vision (that of art and labor).
Bhr 6.182 18 Palaces interest us mainly in the
exhibition of manners, which, in the idle and expensive society
dwelling in them, are raised to a high art.
Bhr 6.182 21 A calm and resolute bearing...and the
art of hiding all uncomfortable feeling, are essential to the
courtier;...
Wsp 6.209 3 In creeds never was such levity;
witness...the rat and mouse revelation, thumps in table-drawers, and
black art.
CbW 6.276 17 ...whatever art you select...all are
attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are
apt;...
Bty 6.290 15 The lesson taught by the study
of...Gothic art...was worth all the research,--namely, that all beauty
must be organic;...
Bty 6.294 22 In rhetoric, this art of omission is a
chief secret of power...
Bty 6.294 26 In all design, art lies in making your
object prominent...
Bty 6.294 27 In all design, art lies in making your
object prominent, but there is a prior art in choosing objects that are
prominent.
Bty 6.296 3 The felicities of design in art or in
works of nature are shadows or forerunners of that beauty which reaches
its perfection in the human form.
Bty 6.300 13 If...art...exist in the most deformed
person, all the accidents that usually displease, please...
Ill 6.323 6 I prefer...to be what cannot be skipped,
or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This
reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry and art.
SS 7.3 4 I fell in with a humorist on my travels, who
had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me
that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a
misnomer...
Civ 7.17 19 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/
What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible
again/...
Civ 7.21 20 ...a nomad, will die with no more estate
than the wolf or the horse leaves. But so simple a labor as a house
being achieved, his chief enemies are kept at bay. ... Invention and
art are born...
Civ 7.26 13 ...there have been learning, philosophy
and art in Iceland, and in the tropics.
Art2 7.39 7 Relatively to themselves, the bee, the
bird, the beaver, have no art;...
Art2 7.41 3 It was said, in allusion to the great
structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their
Art was a Nature working to municiple ends. That is a true account of
all just works of useful art.
Art2 7.44 1 Eloquence, as far as it is a fine art, is
modified how much by the material organization of the orator...
Art2 7.44 13 The art [in sculpture and architecture]
resides in the model, in the plan;...
Art2 7.45 15 Another deduction from the genius of the
artist is what is conventional in his art, of which there is much in
every work of art.
Art2 7.46 25 It is a curious proof of our conviction
that the artist...is as much surprised at the effect as we are, that we
are so unwilling to impute our best sense of any work of art to the
author.
Art2 7.48 7 Let us proceed to the consideration of
the law stated in the beginning of this essay, as it affects the purely
spiritual part of a work of art.
Art2 7.48 8 ...in useful art, so far as it is useful,
the work must be strictly subordinated to the laws of Nature...
Art2 7.49 19 In eloquence, the great triumphs of the
art are when the orator is lifted above himself;...
Art2 7.50 18 ...every work of art, in proportion to
its excellence, partakes of the precision of fate...
Art2 7.51 1 The mind that made the world is not one
mind, but the mind. And every work of art is a more or less pure
manifestation of the same.
Art2 7.51 5 ...the delight which a work of art
affords, seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed
Nature...
Art2 7.51 13 ...a study of admirable works of art
sharpens our perceptions of the beauty of Nature;...
Art2 7.51 16 ...the contemplation of a work of great
art draws us into a state of mind which may be called religious.
Art2 7.51 23 If the earth and sea conspire with
virtue more than vice,--so do the masterpieces of art.
Art2 7.56 15 Who cares, who knows what works of art
our government have ordered to be made for the Capitol?
Elo1 7.64 4 Isocrates described his art as the power
of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great...
Elo1 7.64 7 Among the Spartans, the art [of
eloquence] assumed a Spartan shape, namely, of the sharpest weapon.
Elo1 7.64 17 Plato's definition of rhetoric is, the
art of ruling the minds of men.
Elo1 7.69 16 ...in every constitution some large
degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the
higher qualities of the art [of eloquence].
Elo1 7.71 6 ...every literature contains these high
compliments to the art of the orator and the bard...
Elo1 7.91 4 If you arm the man with the extraordinary
weapons of this art [of oratory]...all these talents...have an equal
power to ensnare and mislead the audience and the orator.
Elo1 7.93 2 The possession the subject has of [the
eloquent man's] mind is so entire that it insures an order of
expression which is the order of Nature itself, and so the
order...inimitable by any art.
Elo1 7.98 19 ...I do not accept that definition of
Isocrates, that the office of his art [of eloquence] is to make the
great small and the small great;...
Elo1 7.99 9 Eloquence, like every other art, rests on
laws the most exact and determinate.
DL 7.106 1 What art can paint or gild any object in
afterlife with the glow which Nature gives to the first baubles of
childhood!
DL 7.106 26 ...by beautiful traits, which without art
yet seem the masterpieces of wisdom...the little pilgrim prosecutes the
journey through Nature which he has thus gayly begun.
DL 7.108 9 It is easier...to criticise [a
territory's] polity, books, art, than to come to the persons and
dwellings of men and read their character...
DL 7.130 17 Why should we convert ourselves into
showmen and appendages to our fine houses and our works of art?
WD 7.174 19 History of ancient art, excavated cities,
recovery of books and inscriptions,--yes, the works were beautiful, and
the history worth knowing;...
Boks 7.200 7 [The reader] will read in [Plutarch's
Morals] the essays On the Daemon of Socrates...On Love; and thank anew
the art of printing...
Clbs 7.240 26 Every variety of gift--science,
religion, politics, letters, art, prudence, war or love--has its vent
and exchange in conversation.
Cour 7.268 12 There is a courage in the treatment of
every art by a master in architecture, in sculpture...
Suc 7.283 24 Men are made each with some triumphant
superiority, which... enriches the community with a new art;...
Suc 7.294 14 If the artist, in whatever art, is well
at work on his own design, it signifies little that he does not yet
find orders or customers.
Suc 7.295 1 The time your rival spends in dressing up
his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards real
knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby...got the appointment; but you
have raised yourself into a higher school of art...
Suc 7.297 1 There is no...art, city...but if you
trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual
man.
Suc 7.308 22 I think that some so-called sacred
subjects must be treated with more genius than I have seen in the
masters of Italian or Spanish art to be right pictures for houses and
churches.
PI 8.26 18 ...when we describe man as poet, and
credit him with the triumphs of the art, we speak of the potential or
ideal man...
PI 8.33 23 We want design, and do not forgive the
bards if they have only the art of enamelling.
SA 8.90 3 ...to the company I am now considering,
were no terrors, no vulgarity. All topics were broached...magic,theism,
art...
SA 8.92 27 In this art of conversation, Woman...is
the lawgiver.
SA 8.96 4 The great gain is...to find a companion who
knows what you do not; to tilt with him and be overthrown...with utter
destruction of all your logic and learning. ... You will adopt the art
of war that has defeated you.
Elo2 8.112 20 ...the political questions...find or
form a class of men by nature and habit fit to discuss and deal with
these measures, and make them intelligible and acceptable to the
electors. So of education, of art, of philanthropy.
Elo2 8.115 11 ...I think every one of us can remember
when our first experiences made us for a time the victim and worshipper
of the first master of this art [of eloquence] whom we happened to hear
in the court-house or in the caucus.
Elo2 8.119 2 Go into an assembly well excited, some
angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that
eloquence is as natural as swimming,--an art which all men might learn,
though so few do.
Elo2 8.119 19 Those whom we admire--the great
orators--have some habit of heat, and moreover...an art of husbanding
it...
Elo2 8.120 10 ...there are physical advantages,--some
eminently leading to this art [of eloquence].
Elo2 8.130 8 He who would convince the worthy Mr.
Dunderhead of any truth which Dunderhead does not see, must be a master
of his art.
Elo2 8.132 25 ...here [in the United States] are the
service of science, the demands of art, and the lessons of religion to
be brought home to the instant practice of thirty millions of people.
Res 8.151 20 The first care of a man settling in the
country should be to open the face of the earth to himself by a little
knowledge of Nature, or a great deal, if he can; of birds, plants,
rocks, astronomy; in short, the art of taking a walk.
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